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we have tax credits for education. $5,000 tax credit. this is a broad agenda, how we transform communities. it will touch everyone in this city. from the first time they go to school to becoming parents. economic freedom so that will remove government obstacles to success. it will provide a generation of citizens, students, workers with a new bargain, and the government will get underway. it will treat you like an adult. it will treat everyone equally under the law, it will help parents control their children's future and their education, it will help creators have more jobs for workers. it will treat you the same way everyone else, the matter the color of your skin, what part of town you comfort. we have tried the bailouts, excessive taxation. it has not worked. it does not work. we will try a new approach. you can meet your new challenges as you rebuild your cities, it will endure and prevail. i promise you that i will work you do we do that. thank you very much. [applause] >> it is my job to sort hundreds of questions and tried to get
we have tax credits for education. $5,000 tax credit. this is a broad agenda, how we transform communities. it will touch everyone in this city. from the first time they go to school to becoming parents. economic freedom so that will remove government obstacles to success. it will provide a generation of citizens, students, workers with a new bargain, and the government will get underway. it will treat you like an adult. it will treat everyone equally under the law, it will help parents control...
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the tax code had to work. education has to work. you had to have a electric regulatory system that worked. you have had to be fast on the dime in working with the private sector because they could take their in investment real fast. so we had our own little strategy. what is the strategy for hawaii? what is it that you must get right to survive in the 21st century and that defines what you are able to did with your legislatived about did i ann if you feigned yourself in a minority meteorologist. position. >> are you the many many republican? >> seven out of 51 in the huhs. we are 8 out of 76. those were the numbers. >> representative, we were trying to change your dynamic. >> there is a saying in the house that the other political party is the opposition. but the enemy, the enemy is the senate. so i guess we temporarily lumped you in with the enemy. we are sorry about that. sounds like your side emphasizes quality, not quantity in the state legislature so i would take the approach, my state is a more republican state altogether. i u
the tax code had to work. education has to work. you had to have a electric regulatory system that worked. you have had to be fast on the dime in working with the private sector because they could take their in investment real fast. so we had our own little strategy. what is the strategy for hawaii? what is it that you must get right to survive in the 21st century and that defines what you are able to did with your legislatived about did i ann if you feigned yourself in a minority...
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>>'m trying to lower taxes for detroit. i don't want to raise taxes. it's hard to come to an agreement. divided government. most likely we'll get another continuing resolution. our country is almost evenly split. republicans and half democrats. what we believe in is very far it's hard to find agreement. debate is good. ust because we're having discussion, that's bad. we've been debating since the beginning of our republic. a good healthy debate is good sometimes. >> several questions around the polarization and the disgust general american public has with that polarization and the grid lock in washington. propose to help heal some of that. >> i think we can, you know, agree to disagree and not necessarily always be disagreeable. some of that is personalities, how we work things out. i think, i t and i, don't know him real well, i fine. we've gotten along i've rid on air force one with him, talking about structure. trying to be supportive. there's various policy issues i haven't attacked him and tried to be supportive on on some of the drug issues. it's
>>'m trying to lower taxes for detroit. i don't want to raise taxes. it's hard to come to an agreement. divided government. most likely we'll get another continuing resolution. our country is almost evenly split. republicans and half democrats. what we believe in is very far it's hard to find agreement. debate is good. ust because we're having discussion, that's bad. we've been debating since the beginning of our republic. a good healthy debate is good sometimes. >> several...
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to set some spending so we can have regular order, to change some of the sequester , and no big, new taxes. no big changes in entitlements. --s that just sound like does that gist semi-something the president can work with? >> you need to see the specifics. the democrats are pretty unified in terms of the things that are most important. one of the most important things , which will be a framing concept of what you accept, we of the at this stage economic recovery, we are recovering. we are getting there. we want to have this agreement be a part of what can further support economic growth and job creation. sequester, replace which are cuts to discretionary , replace that with longer-term issues. we maintain deficit reduction in , but for right now, what we need now is a little more that. that is one of the most important parameters. >> one of your most important priorities is -- >> replacement of the sequester. cuts across the board. the sequester was a tool that was put in lace -- it was a threat. -- put in place. it was a threat. we are in a situation where both republicans and democrats
to set some spending so we can have regular order, to change some of the sequester , and no big, new taxes. no big changes in entitlements. --s that just sound like does that gist semi-something the president can work with? >> you need to see the specifics. the democrats are pretty unified in terms of the things that are most important. one of the most important things , which will be a framing concept of what you accept, we of the at this stage economic recovery, we are recovering. we...
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they're looking at any tax hikes that have been demanded by democrats. we are looking at tax hikes. they are also not looking at significant cuts to medicare, medicaid, or social security, which are areas republicans say needs to be done. instead we are looking at pretty small things and haggling over whether to have federal employees attribute more to their retirement -- employees contribute more to their retirement plans. they are also looking at things a spectrum that is going to be sold to telephone companies. they are looking at a small budget deal that would replace some of the sequester, the automatic spending cuts that were launched in 2011 as part of a but -- part of a different budget process. host: like can't there right now? caller: --host: why can't there be a grand bargain right now? caller: because republicans and democrats can't agree. all ryan, the chairman of the budget committee, and patty murray decided they were not going to go after the towels of the other party and just try to get something that was possible after all these failed budget agreements in the past
they're looking at any tax hikes that have been demanded by democrats. we are looking at tax hikes. they are also not looking at significant cuts to medicare, medicaid, or social security, which are areas republicans say needs to be done. instead we are looking at pretty small things and haggling over whether to have federal employees attribute more to their retirement -- employees contribute more to their retirement plans. they are also looking at things a spectrum that is going to be sold to...
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you've got to have a competitive tax cut. he got to do something about debt, something about education is all about problem-solving. no labels think that the sweet spot of i think with the american people are and what it will be in the next couple of election cycles will therefore be a place where most elected officials are going to want to be. not because it's the right thing politically but because it's the right thing for this country. >> senator bayh, you served in the senate for over a decade. how did things change while you were serving? how useful would a group like no labels have been either early in your career or at the end of your career in the senate? >> that's a good question. the senate has changed dramatically in the last 14 or 15 years and it's just a completely different universe since my father's time. one story about that and then i will answer questions or it was 1968 my father was running for his first with the -- reelection. the republican leader who at the time was in illinois a man named edward dirksen
you've got to have a competitive tax cut. he got to do something about debt, something about education is all about problem-solving. no labels think that the sweet spot of i think with the american people are and what it will be in the next couple of election cycles will therefore be a place where most elected officials are going to want to be. not because it's the right thing politically but because it's the right thing for this country. >> senator bayh, you served in the senate for over...